One Things Guys Have To

With Speed Skating, It's Like Doing One-legged Squats Over And Over Again, With That One Leg Absorbing More Than 80 Percent Of Your Weight. It Takes An Enormous Amount Of Strength, And You're In Such A Weird Position.

I Rolled The Second Car That I Ever Owned, A Toyota 4 Runner. This Was Winter In Colorado, Two Weeks Before The 2002 Olympic Trials. I Was Driving In The Outside Lane, And My Rear Tire Caught Some Black Ice, And We Totally Turned Sideways To The Point Where We Were Heading Right Toward The Median.

If You Put Your Mind To Something, If You Give 100 Percent, If You Sacrifice, And If You Dedicate Yourself, Anything Is Truly Possible.

When There's Somebody Racing Side-by-side, When Somebody's Right Next To Me And They're Pushing And We're Both Tired, We're Both Fatigued, I Want To Be Able To Beat Them Mentally.

I Wanted To Play Football Or Be A Boxer, But My Dad Didn't Want That Because Of All The Impact. But In 1992 I Was Watching Short Track, And It Was Obscure, But They Looked Like Superheroes In Their Tight Outfits, And I Thought It Was Amazing. I Wanted To Do That. I Made The National Team At 14.